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What does ray tracing mean in modern video games and do I need an expensive graphics card to notice the visual difference?

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What does ray tracing mean in modern video games and do I need an expensive graphics card to notice the visual difference?
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ray tracing explained real-time games performance GPU hardware requirements NVIDIA AMD Intel officialGoogle ↗
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ray tracing explained real-time games performance GPU hardware requirements NVIDIA AMD Intel official Google ↗
  1. NVIDIA Turing Architecture In-Depth · developer.nvidia.com
  2. Real-Time Ray Tracing · developer.nvidia.com
  3. What is ray tracing? The GPU technology explained · techradar.com

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